Record

Repository	Scottish Catholic Archives
Ref No	SCA/DA/9/44
Title	South Uist: Emigration to Canada
Date	1884
Level	File
Description	Letters from Ontario, Manitoba etc., recommending that emigrants come to Ontario; letter forwarded to Bishop MacDonald by Rev Michael Condon recommending Newfoundland to emigrants; proposal to send a priest to the emigrants from S Uist now in Manitoba; friction on S Uist between factors and priests and Reginald MacLeod's proposal that he might intervene with Lady Cathcart; Archbishop of St Boniface on the situation of the newly arrived emigrants; information on different parts of Canada as destinations for emigrants; request for Gaelic speaking priest for Manitoba; provision of Gaelic manuals for settlers in N W Territories; need for concurrence of Archbishop Tache in settling a priest in N W Territories; proposal to send Rev Alexander MacKintosh of Daliburgh to N W Territories, Lady Cathcart's contribution to the expense of sending out a priest to emigrants from S Uist, the Colonisation Fund to rescue children from workhouses and send them to Canada; Rev A MacKintosh not permitted to emigrate after all
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